PHY100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Circular Motion, Cognitive Science, Dailymotion
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Chapter 1: the way of science experience and reason. Science is observing and understanding the natural world. Since earth formed about 5 billion years ago (and the earliest simple organisms inhabiting it about 4 billion years ago), organisms have evolved biologically to interact with their environment in increasingly complex ways. Through biological evolution, the universe has become more aware of itself (education and science are an extension of this) The problems and solutions of our time are bound up with science and technology (this is the scientific age) To expand awareness and to develop social values appropriate to the scientific age. Physics is the study of phenomena that, like falling, are universal. It"s ha(cid:396)d to fit s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e and technology into perspective because our culture is so immersed in them. The s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:373)ethod, also k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as the (cid:862)scientific process(cid:863) is often described as several activities that scientists sometimes practice: observing, hypothesizing, testing, and so forth.
